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Book: Down Home by Gail Roughton

Gail Roughton

about this book: Welcome to Turkey Creek, Rockland County, Georgia! Pull up a chair at the Scales of Justice Café, right next to the grocery store and across from the Courthouse. That's where folks go to be in the know. Where you can hear the story that's burning up the phone lines and cell towers right now. It seems Billy Brayton's back in town. You know, the local bad boy run out of town years ago by Big John Kincaid when his daughter Maggie had that wild streak and fell in love with that nobody from nowhere. But Billy Brayton's been dead for years, you say? Killed in a freak accident in basic training after Big John railroaded him into the Army? Well, it appears not. Because he's back. He's home. And it's payback time. Sometimes you can go home again.

All small towns are alike, you know. Everybody thinks they know everything. Nobody knows everything, of course. And most folks know a lot less than they think they do. Secrets spill out from the epicenter like ripples rushing out when a pebble's tossed into water. I'm well acquainted with small town life. I know the places of Down Home because I live there. I know the people of Down Home because I'm part of them and they're part of me. Come on down and visit. I promise you won't be sorry.